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Active Vs. Passive Defense Against A Strategic Attacker

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  • KJELL HAUSKEN

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway)

  • GREGORY LEVITIN

    (Collaborative Autonomic Computing Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China;
    The Israel Electric Corporation, P. O. Box 10, Haifa 31000, Israel)

Abstract

The article analyzes how a defender determines a balance between protecting an object (passive defense) and striking preventively against an attacker seeking to destroy the object (active defense). The attacker analogously determines a balance between attacking and protecting against the preventive strike. The defender makes its decision about striking preventively based on its estimate of the probability of being attacked. In both cases of preventive strike and no preventive strike, the defender anticipates the most harmful attacker's strategy. The influence of the ratio between the player's resources and the contest intensities on the solution of the game is analyzed.

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  • Kjell Hausken & Gregory Levitin, 2011. "Active Vs. Passive Defense Against A Strategic Attacker," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(01), pages 1-12.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:igtrxx:v:13:y:2011:i:01:n:s0219198911002812
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219198911002812
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    Cited by:

    1. Kjell Hausken, 2019. "Principal–Agent Theory, Game Theory, and the Precautionary Principle," Decision Analysis, INFORMS, vol. 16(2), pages 105-127, June.
    2. Gao, Kaiye & Yan, Xiangbin & Liu, Xiang-dong & Peng, Rui, 2019. "Object defence of a single object with preventive strike of random effect," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 186(C), pages 209-219.
    3. Nakao, Keisuke, 2019. "Modeling Deterrence by Denial and by Punishment," MPRA Paper 95100, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Wu, Di & Xiao, Hui & Peng, Rui, 2018. "Object defense with preventive strike and false targets," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 169(C), pages 76-80.
    5. McCarter, Matthew & Barker, Kash & Johansson, Jonas & Ramirez-Marquez, Jose E., 2018. "A bi-objective formulation for robust defense strategies in multi-commodity networks," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 176(C), pages 154-161.

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    Keywords

    Survivability; active defense; passive defense; attack; protection; contest intensity; JEL Classification Number: C7;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B4 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology
    • C0 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General
    • C6 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling
    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
    • D5 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
    • M2 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics

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